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  • Some Principles of Maritime Strategy

    Enriched edition. Unraveling Naval Strategy: Insights into Maritime Warfare and World Conflict

    by Julian Stafford Corbett, Xavier Sutton ...
    In "Some Principles of Maritime Strategy," Julian Stafford Corbett delivers a seminal exploration of naval theory that profoundly shaped maritime policy in the early 20th century. Through a meticulous analysis of maritime warfare'—interweaving historical case studies and theoretical frameworks'—Corbett articulates key principles that govern naval operations. His writing, marked by clarity and ... Read more

    0,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the ... Read more

    15,57 €

  • Hunter Killers

    The Dramatic Untold Story of the Royal Navy's Most Secret Service

    by Iain Ballantyne ...
    HUNTER KILLER: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes.HUNTER KILLERS will follow the careers of four daring British submarine captains who risked their lives to keep the rest of us safe, their exploits consigned to the shadows until now. Their experiences encompass the span of the Cold War, from voyages in WW2-era submarines under Arctic ice to ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • The Wager

    by David Grann ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read'** Guardian‘The greatest sea story ever told’ Spectator'I cannot think of anyone who would not love this book . . . It is an extraordinary true story, beautifully written' Richard Osman... ... Read more

    10,46 €

  • Flinders

    The Man Who Mapped Australia

    by Rob Mundle ...
    The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline.From the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The Ship

    by C. S. Forester ...
    Story of a battle engaged in by a British light cruiser in the Mediterranean. HMS Artemis is part of an escort task force protecting a convoy of supplies desperately needed by the British forces in Malta. It follows the life of a Royal Navy light cruiser for a single action, including a detailed analysis of many of the men on board and the contribution they made. ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carrier Clash

    by Eric Hammel ...
    CARRIER CLASHThe Invasion of Guadalcanal &the Battle of the Eastern SolomonsAugust 1942Eric HammelThe Battle of the Eastern Solomons was historys third carrier clash. A collision of U.S. Navy and Imperial Navy carriers in the wake of the invasion of Guadalcanalwhose airfield the United States desperately needed and the Japanese desperately wanted backthe battle was waged at sea and over ... Read more

    8,54 €

  • Lighthousekeeping

    by Jeanette Winterson ...
    From one of Britain’s best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling.Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and ... Read more

    8,05 €

  • U-Boat War Patrol

    The Hidden Photographic Diary of U-564

    by Lawrence Paterson ...
    "[A] book of rare photographs . . . detailing life aboard a German Second World War submarine" from the author of Operation Colossus ( History Today).This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were "liberated" from a concrete U-boat pen in Brest at the end of the war and which had, ... Read more

    6,14 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

    by H. Keith Melton, Robert Wallace ...
    Once a top-secret training manual for CIA field agents in the early Cold War Era of the 1950s, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception is now available to the general public. An amazing historical artifact, this eye-opening handbook offered step-by-step instructions to covert intelligence operatives in all manner of sleight of hand and trickery designed to thwart the Communist enemy. ... Read more

    8,68 €

  • Citizen Sailors

    The Royal Navy in the Second World War

    by Glyn Prysor ...
    'The deck and the bridge were pointing to the sky at an alarming angle and our thoughts were to get the devil out of it and into the water. Almost in unison we shouted "for God's sake jump boys".'Citizen Sailors is a groundbreaking people's history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary diaries and letters, along with memoirs, oral history and official ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Blue Machine

    How the Ocean Shapes Our World

    by Helen Czerski ...
    WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATIONFINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic.'Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read Water<strong... ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Smoke And Ashes

    Opium's Hidden Histories

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it's Ghosh's big-picture thinking that has made his nonfiction so influential . . . A huge achievement' The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the nineteenth century the British reaped huge profits by exporting vast ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Wavewalker

    Breaking Free

    by Suzanne Heywood ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy’ TELEGRAPH‘This is a story of an epic chil... ... Read more

    17,69 €

  • Endeavour

    The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook’s recently discovered ship

    by Peter Moore ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history, adventure and science.From Johnson's Dictionary to campaigns for liberty, the Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. It was also the name given to a commonplace, coal-carrying vessel bought by the Royal N ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • Blind Man's Bluff

    The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

    by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew ...
    A New York Times bestsellerThe secret history of America's submarine warfare is revealed for the first time in this fast-paced chronicle of adventure and intrigue during the Cold War.**"Vividly told, impressively documented." —**New York TimesFor decades, only a select and powerful few knew the truth about the submarines that silently roamed the ocean in danger and... ... Read more

    Was 14,99 € Now 12,99 €

  • The Boundless Sea

    A Human History of the Oceans

    by David Abulafia ...
    WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

    The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that ... Read more

    10,27 €

  • Rigging: Period Ships Models

    by Lennarth Petersson ...
    A fully illustrated guide to rigging models of historic ships with confidence and accuracy, using a model of the eighteenth-century HMS Melampus.The rigging of period ship models is the ultimate challenge for any modeler. An eighteenth-century man-of-war boasted mile on mile of rigging, more than one thousand blocks, and acres of canvas. To reduce this in scale, and yet retain an accurate ... Read more

    8,26 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Highest Degree Tragic

    The Sacrifice of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the East Indies during World War II

    by Donald M. Kehn Jr. ...
    In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn Jr.’s comprehensive narrative history of the operations involving multiple ships and thousands of men dramatically depicts the chaotic nature of these battles. His research has uncovered evidence of ... Read more

    29,75 €

  • Sink ’Em All

    Submarine Warfare in the Pacific

    by Charles A. Lockwood ...
    Sink ’Em All by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the U.S. Navy commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during World War 2, is the exhaustive and definitive account of submarine warfare between the US and Japanese 1942-45. Lockwood’s intricate narrative is the breathless story of every submarine in the US fleet and what they did during the war, their misses, near misses and hits. His vivid prose ... Read more

    1,99 €

  • The Sea Devils

    Operation Struggle and the Last Great Raid of World War Two

    by Mark Felton ...
    July 1945. Eighteen young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from a top-secret underwater warfare unit prepare to undertake three audacious missions against the Japanese.Using XE-craft midget submarines, the raiders will creep deep behind Japanese lines to sink two huge warships off Singapore and sever two vitally important undersea communications cables. Success will hasten ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Town Class Destroyers

    A Critical Assessment

    by John Henshaw ...
    Early in World War II, fifty obsolete US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy in return for a 99-year lease on British bases in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Newfoundland. Though they were obsolete and far from ideal, they played a vital role in the Royal Navy's campaign. This is their complete story. Topics covered include the background to the acquisition of the ships, the Battle of ... Read more

    19,18 €

  • The Guide to the American Revolutionary War at Sea

    Vol. 6 1781

    by Norman Desmarais ...
    The Guide to the American Revolutionary War at Sea chronicles more than 10,500 actions -- far more than other naval histories. Vol. 6 documents 1696 of them which occurred in 1781. It includes the actions of the Continental and state navies, the French and British navies, the actions of American and British privateers and those of their allies.In addition to the engagements in the Atlantic Ocean, ... Read more

    38,15 €